CLASHES WITH POLICE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 2

CLASHES WITH POLICE

DEMONSTRATORS IN INDIA CONGRESS BLAMED (9 a.m.) BOMBAY, Aug. 29. A number of people ‘Have been killed and injured in clashes between the -police and demonstrators inflndia. One -person wag''killed and' three injured when crowds attempted to cut a railway embankment. The police fired on demonstrators' at Paru police station, Bhiaiv dnd killed-two 1 and wounded three. A crowd of 1000 people which attempted to,attack the railway and police stations in' Benares was driven off by the .police, 16 person's being' injured. A communique issued by the Madras Government states that from information in its possession it has no doubt that instructions for damage to railway property,- cutting telephone wires and destruction of Government property in the recent disturbances originated from the Congress working committee. The Government had documents which proved that instructions issued by the Andhra provincial Congress committee and all the Telugu district Congress committees contained lists of methods-by which-the civil disobedience campaign was to be conducted. The documents also proved that instructions had been issued by the Tamil district and provincial' Com gross committees before the sitting of the All-India Congress ori August 7. ■